One of our major objectives in consumer protection is to ensure high quality standards and safety levels for food including food quality assessments. Our activities also include issues related to feedstuff and consumer products.

Due to continuously increasing regulations in foodstuff legislation on both, a national and international level, new analytical procedures are demanded from the industry to meet these requirements. This especially applies for an increased self-monitoring of the food and feed industry and the so-called product traceability.

One focal point of work in this business area is the development of innovative detection procedures for the analysis of food and feed. The objective is to improve detection limits and to reduce the time of analysis by using fast detection methods that can be directly applied in the laboratory offside production, but also by providing methods applicable in production processes for process control (so-called in-line or on-line procedures).
We therefore develop methods for the identification of chemical contaminants, off-flavours, pathogenic micro-organisms, BSE and allergens.

In the scope of research projects we focus on the required food safety within a 'from farm to fork' concept.

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